Six people, suspected of having stolen in 2019 from Bataclan a work attributed to Banksy and recently found in Italy, were indicted on Friday and placed in pre-trial detention, we learned on Saturday from judicial and police sources. These six people were arrested Tuesday in Isère, Haute-Savoie, Var, Rhône and Puy-de-Dôme during an operation led by the direction of the judicial police of Paris (DCPJ) in charge of the investigation opened for theft aggravated, said a police source.
Placed in pre-trial detention
Two of the people arrested were charged with the chief of robbery in an organized band and the other four for concealment of theft in an organized band, the same police and judicial sources added. All six were placed in pre-trial detention.
The work attributed to the famous anonymous British artist Banksy had been painted in 2018 on a metal emergency door of the Parisian performance hall of the Bataclan, in the form of a tribute to the very place where 90 people were killed on November 13, 2015, during a series of jihadist attacks that hit Paris. The criminals seized it by cutting the door with a grinder on the night of January 25 to 26, 2019.
Italian police announced on June 10 that they had found the door, depicting a sad-looking female figure, on a farm in the Abruzzo countryside during a joint operation by French police and Italian riflemen.